Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick O'Brien, now Mayor of New York. Charlotte Pixel called 125 witnesses to swear that she had been publicly recognized and accepted as Erlanger's wife. One witness described an Atlantic City boardwalk scene in which Erlanger declared...
...assistant. She takes a liking to him forthwith, accompanies him from the ramshackle 'leggers hideaway where an automobile accident has stranded her to more commodious quarters in a city sporting house. When her respectable suitor calls there to subpena the gangster, Trigger, in a trial for the murder of one of his underlings, Temple tries to leave, shoots Trigger for trying to stop her. When she tells all this on the witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema hero of the year. He gathers Temple...
...Only a playwright with the charmingly oblique Latin approach to such matters would have caused the Count to do what he next does. Afraid to kill his wife, afraid of public ridicule if he does not kill her. he packs her off to England, confesses to. her murder, stands trial, is acquitted. His triumphant homecoming is marred by the exiled wife's arrival. While an anonymous corpse just fished up out of Lake Como lies in one part of the Villa Grazia. the Count and Countess mend their difficulties in another. Signora Zanotti has meantime been jilted...
Spain's Ambassador protested continuously to Charles II about Morgan's pillaging progress; finally he was recalled to England to stand trial (1672). His foregone acquittal brought him a knighthood and the Lieutenant-Governorship of Jamaica. During his three terms as Governor he turned on his old cronies, the buccaneers, with a fierce, forgetful hand. Once he wined and dined 17 of them, led them on to talk dangerously of what they had done, had them arrested as they left, hanged them all next day. Said he: "I abhor bloodshed, and I am greatly dissatisfied that...
...Dean, 7; by their own hands (carbon monoxide); on a country road 15 mi. south of Minneapolis. The crash of Wilbur Burton Foshay's Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding out for acquittal (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931).* Convicted of contempt of court for concealing the fact that she had once worked for Foshay (two weeks as a stenographer), she was sentenced to six months in jail...